Speaker
Aditya Mehta
Aditya started his career in advertising with his last stint as Senior Art Director at Ogilvy where he spent 6 years working on globally renowned brands. It’s here where he sought and found a higher purpose by doing something of his own. Surrounded by incredibly talented designers, artists, illustrators, typographers, photographers and doodlers, he wanted to build a platform to monetize their art beyond likes, comments and shares. After 2 years of working on his side project over nights and weekends, he quit his job and became full-time Founder, CEO and Curator of Art&Found™
What launched as a curated marketplace for affordable art, a year later, extended to artist–brand collaborations with Nike, Levi’s, Starbucks and LVMH. While the former is print-on-demand wall art shipped worldwide, the latter is medium agnostic including, but not limited to, limited-edition merch and apparel line to murals, installations and large scale art experiences and events involving curation, execution and everything in between. Since 2014, Adi has been on a mission to make art accessible. He is also the co-founder of AR.IVAL, where art meets AR. Beyond work hours, he is an artist, a turntablist and a student of Krav Maga.